Joseph Bradley Varnum

Joseph Bradley Varnum (29 January 1751-21 September 1821) was a member of the US House of Representatives from Massachusetts' 9th district from 4 March 1795 to 3 March 1803 (preceding Phanuel Bishop) and from the 4th district from 4 March 1803 to 29 June 1811 (succeeding Seth Hastings and preceding William M. Richardson). He then served as a US Senator from 29 June 1811 to 3 March 1817, succeeding Timothy Pickering and preceding Harrison Gray Otis. He was a Democratic-Republican.

Biography
Joseph Bradley Varnum was born in Dracut, Massachusetts in 1751, and he became a colonel in the militia in 1787; he reached the rank of Major-General in 1805. He served in the American Revolutionary War before assisting in the suppression of the Shays Rebellion, and he served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1780 to 1785 and then in the State Senate from 1786 to 1795. Varnum proceeded to serve in the US House of Representatives from 1795 to 1811 and then in the US Senate from 1811 to 1817, and he was the only Massachusetts Democratic-Republican senator. After his return to Massachusetts in 1817, he entered the State Senate, serving until his death in 1821.